"To demonstrate that ELT-2 is indeed necessary for in vivo expression of
pho-1,
elt-2(RNAi) was performed in the strain containing integrated copies of the 1-kb
pho-1 promoter fused to a GFP/lacZ reporter... Injection of
elt-2 double-stranded RNA into transgenic
pho-1::GFP/lacZ hermaphrodites produces highly penetrant (100% in most replicates) arrest of F1 larvae, all of which show the distinctive Gob (gut-obstructed) phenotype seen with the
elt-2 knockout (Fukushige et al., 1998, 2003). In these arrested larvae, β-galactosidase (and GFP) reporter gene expression is almost completely abolished."